The Culture of Mousike in the Classical Athenian City

Coming to Know Medieval Song and How it Was Made

Emotion and its Role in Literature Music and Art

Human Evolution Archaeology and the Origins of Musicality

The Unheard Pakistan

Origins and Development of Musical Competence

The Psychology of Performance Improvisation and Composition

Fugal Improvisation through Figured Bass

Experiencing Music Expressing Culture- These captivating case studies include eyewitness accounts of performances interviews with performers and vivid illustrations. Each volume is packaged with a 70-minute CD that contains representative examples of the music discussed in the book. Ngoma is the hallmark of music in East Africa and a performance that incorporates drumming singing and dancing. Using several towns and villages as examples this case study discusses how Ngoma performances function as important means of mediating conflicts solidifying community and ethnicity and communicating traditional values and social histories.

with Complex Needs Paperback- There are around 40 000 children and young people in the UK alone with severe or profound and multiple learning difficulties in special schools and in mainstream education. Research has indicated that provision is at best patchy despite the widely held belief that music is beneficial both in its own right and to promote wider development. This book seeks to foster progress in what is still a young discipline by reflecting on contemporary thinking and practice identifying key issues introducing recent and ongoing research and providing practical advice for practitioners including teachers therapists and community musicians.

Hearing and Composing in the Sistine Chapel- In the late 15th century the newly built Sistine Chapel was home to a vigorous culture of musical composition and performance. Josquin des Prez stood at its center singing and composing for the pope's private choir. Josquin's Rome offers a new reading of the composer's work in light of the repertory he and his fellow papal singers performed from the chapel's singers' box. Comprising the single largest surviving corpus of late 15th-century sacred music these pieces served as a backdrop for elaborately choreographed liturgical ceremonies-a sonic analogue to the frescoes by Botticelli Perugino and their contemporaries thatadorn the chapel's walls. Author Jesse Rodin uses a comparative approach to uncover this aesthetically and intellectually rich musical tradition. Confronting longstanding problems concerning the authenticity and chronology of Josquin's music while also offering nuanced readings of understudied works by his contemporaries the book contextualizes Josquin by locating intersections between his music and the wider soundscape of the Cappella Sistina. Central to Rodin's argument is the idea that these pieces lived in performance and the author demonstrates the interpretations of the music prevalent at the time in which it was composed through a series of exquisitely produced recordings on the companion website. Josquin's Rome is an essential resource for Musicologists scholars of the Italian Renaissance and enthusiasts of early music in general.

Julian Dodd offers an original approach to the controversial concept of authenticity in musical performance. He argues that the fundamental norm is not historical authenticity but interpretive authenticity: being faithful to the work by evincing a profound far-reaching or sophisticated understanding of it.

Volume 2 - Works Written Before 2000-Vocal Repertoire for the Twenty-First Century is an insightful and practical interpretive guide to contemporary repertoire assembled by celebrated soprano Jane Manning. This first of the two-volume set covers works composed prior to the year 2000.

Music and Spectacle in the Lives of Lorenzo Onofrio and Maria Mancini Colonna-The Politics of Princely Entertainment follows the travels of Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna and Maria Mancini two of the most active music patrons of seventeenth-century Italy tracing their influence on music across a rapidly transforming Europe through the singers composers and librettists they supported.

Political Action and Music in Late Twentieth-Century Poland-A vibrant study of music and protest that focuses on the Solidarity movement in 1980s Poland Musical Solidarities explores how and why sound mattered to the opposition to state socialism. Unfurling the rich soundscapes of political action at demonstrations church services meetings and in detention it offers a nuanced portrait of this pivotal decade of European and global history.

Through the analysis and comparison of diverse repertoires performance practices and theories Thought and Play in Musical Rhythm responds to the critical need for developing richer ways of describing rhythm in all its complexity. Focusing on tensions between the general and the culturally specific the book considers musics from Africa and Asia as well as jazz popular music and new music of the late 20th century.

in Music Theory-Music Theory operates with a number of fundamental terms that are rarely explored in detail. This book offers in-depth reflections on key concepts from a range of philosophical and critical approaches that reflect the diversity of the contemporary music theory landscape.

Sense and Sadness Syriac Chant in Aleppo

Performing Music Shared Concerns

Bits and Pieces A History of Chiptunes